Duties of secretary. 1849, 215, § 1. 1858, 61. G. S. 34, § 5. P. S. 41, § 5. 1901, 112. Same subject. returns, like returns of the schools in charge of the board, and a detailed report of all the doings of the board, together with a detailed report of all receipts and expenditures, with observations upon the condition and efficiency of the system of public education and suggestions in regard to the most practicable means of improving and extending it. The records of the doings of the board shall be open to public inspection. DUTIES OF THE [SECRETARY 1]. SECTION 7. The [secretary 1] shall suggest improvements in the present system of public schools to the board and to the general court; shall visit, as often as his other duties will permit, different parts of the commonwealth for the purpose of arousing and guiding public sentiment in relation to the practical interests of education; shall collect in his office such school books, apparatus, maps and charts as can be obtained without expense to the commonwealth; shall receive and arrange in his office the reports and returns of the school committees; and shall receive, preserve or distribute the state documents relative to the public school system. He may also publish for general distribution such parts of the annual report of the board and such other matters as he may consider best adapted to promote the interests of public school education, if the expense thereof is paid out of the appropriation for the incidental and contingent expenses of the board and does not in any one year exceed five hundred dollars. SECTION 8. He shall, under the direction of the board, give sufficient notice of and attend such meetings of teachers of public schools, of members of the school committees of the several towns and of friends of education generally in any county as may assemble at the time and place designated by the board; and shall at such meetings devote himself to collecting information relative to the condition of the public schools of such county, the fulfilment of their duties by the school committees of all the cities and towns, and the condition of the towns in regard to teachers, pupils, books, apparatus and methods of education, with a view to enabling him to furnish all information desired for the annual report. Section 9 is repealed by chapter 234, Acts of 1904. 1 Commissioner of Education. See footnote, page 4 of this pamphlet. NORMAL SCHOOLS. schools, man 1870, 106. P. S. 41, § 12. 1891, 384. SECTION 10. (As amended by chapter 79, Acts of 1912.) Normal The board shall have the general management of the state agement of. normal schools and the boarding houses connected therewith, and money appropriated for their maintenance may be expended under its direction. The receipts from pupils boarded in halls maintained at normal schools shall be paid into the treasury of the commonwealth monthly, and so much thereof as is necessary to pay the expenses of wages, food and supplies for dormitories and kitchens shall be paid therefrom upon approved schedules accompanied by vouchers in the same manner that other claims against the commonwealth are paid; and all receipts from other sources shall be paid into the treasury of the commonwealth monthly as a part of the general revenue of the commonwealth. The auditor of the commonwealth shall exercise the same direction of all accounts kept at normal schools as is authorized by section four of chapter five hundred and ninety-seven of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eight. The principals of the several normal schools shall be bonded in amounts to be approved by the board of education. PUPILS FROM OTHER STATES AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES. In addition to the preceding provisions, chapter 65, Resolves of 1902, provides as follows: That the state board of education is hereby authorized to receive in the state normal schools pupils from other states and from foreign countries upon the payment of tuition fees; and also to receive in said schools upon the payment of tuition fees such a number of properly qualified teachers or persons intending to be teachers, from Porto Rico, Cuba, Guam, the Sandwich Islands and the Philippine Islands, as they may deem expedient, and to distribute them in such a manner among the several schools aforesaid as will avoid an excessive demand upon, or serious inconvenience to, the existing facilities and equipment of the schools. MODEL AND PRACTICE SCHOOLS. schools. SECTION 11. The cities of North Adams, Fitchburg Practice and Lowell and the town of Barnstable shall each agree 1894, 457, §§ 6, 7. in writing with the board to provide suitable and sufficient 1896, 133. school buildings and model and practice schools in connection with the training departments of the state normal schools therein. The board may, at the request of a city or town in the vicinity of said state normal schools, agree in writing with such city or town for the maintenance of practice schools therein in connection with such normal schools, and may provide for the payment of a portion of the compensation of the supervising teachers employed in such practice schools. The treasurer and receiver general shall receive all money payable under said agreements and shall expend it under the direction of the board for the purposes specified in this section without an appropriation therefor. Sections 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 are repealed by chapter 234, Acts of 1904. AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL AT Chapter 257, Acts of 1908, provides as follows: SECTION 1. The state board of education is hereby authorized to make provision for agricultural education in the normal school at North Adams: provided, that the city of North Adams shall contribute the free use for ten years of land suitable for the purpose. SECTION 2. A sum not exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars shall be allowed and paid from the treasury of the commonwealth for the establishment of the said department and its maintenance during the current year.1 Statistics as to pupils, instruction, etc. 1867, 123, § 1. RETURNS OF PRIVATE AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITU- SECTION 17. The trustees, officers or persons in charge of literary, scientific or professional institutions of learnP. S. 41, § 13. ing, incorporated, supported or aided by the commonwealth, and of all reform schools, almshouses or private educational institutions shall annually, on or before the first day of June, make a report in writing to the board, of such statistics as it shall prescribe, relative to the number of pupils and instructors, courses of study, cost of tuition, and the general condition of the institution or school under their charge. - blanks for, to be prepared. 1867, 123, § 2. SECTION 18. The board shall prepare blank forms of inquiry for such statistics, and shall annually, on or before U.S. Rev. Sts., the tenth day of May, send the same to every such insti P. S. 41, § 14. § 516. tution or school. Said forms shall be prepared with reference to the requirements of the bureau of education established by the government of the United States. 1 Expenses now provided for in the annual State appropriation. EDUCATION OF THE DEAF AND BLIND. the the deaf. of Instruction of 1867, 311, § 4. 1869, 333. 1868, 200. 1871, 300. P. S. 41, § 16. 1887, 179. 1886, 241. 1889, 226. SECTION 19. The governor may, upon the request the parents or guardians and with the approval of board, send such deaf persons as he considers proper subjects for education, for a term not exceeding ten years, but, upon like request and with like approval, he may continue for a longer term the instruction of meritorious 1888, 239. pupils recommended by the principal or other chief officer of the school of which they are members, to the American School, at Hartford, for the Deaf, in the state of Connecticut, to the Clarke School for the Deaf at Northampton, to the Horace Mann School at Boston, or to any other school for the deaf in the commonwealth, as the parents or guardians may prefer; and with the approval of the board he may, at the expense of the commonwealth, make such provision for the care and education of children who are both deaf and blind as he may deem expedient. No distinction shall be made on account of the wealth or poverty of such children or their parents. No such pupil shall be withdrawn from such institutions or schools except with the consent of the authorities thereof or of the governor; and the expenses of the instruction and support of such pupils in such institutions or schools, including their necessary travelling expenses, whether daily or otherwise, shall be paid by the commonwealth; but the parents or guardians of such children may pay the whole or any part of such expense. and report of. SECTION 20. The board shall direct and supervise the supervision education of all such pupils, and shall state in its annual 1867, 311, § 3. report the number of pupils so instructed, the cost of their P. S. 41, § 17. instruction and support, the manner in which the money appropriated by the commonwealth therefor has been expended and such other information as it considers important. etc., to school under super SECTION 21. The board shall have the same super- Admission, vision over the admission to, and instruction of pupils in, for the blind the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the vision of board. Blind as it now exercises over the instruction of the deaf 1885, 118. under the provisions of the two preceding sections. Teachers' institutes, meetings of. 1846, 99, § 1. 1848, 10. 1849, 62. G. S. 35, § 1. P. S. 42, § 1. 1896, 186. expenses of. 1846, 99, § 3. Res. 1850, 65. TEACHERS' INSTITUTES AND ASSOCIATIONS. [Revised Laws, Chapter 40.] SECTION 1. If twenty-five teachers of public schools in at least three contiguous towns desire to form a teachers' institute, the board of education shall, by a committee, by its [secretary 1] or, in case of his inability, by such person as it may delegate, appoint a time and place for such meeting and make suitable arrangements therefor. SECTION 2. An amount not exceeding three thousand 1854, 300, $$ 3,4. dollars may annually be paid [from the half of the income of the Massachusetts school fund not apportioned for distribution to towns] to defray the necessary expenses and charges and to procure teachers and lecturers for such institutes. G. S. 35, § 2. 1873, 292, § 1. 1876, 47, § 4. P. S. 42, § 2. - length of 1846, 99, § 2. G. S. 35, § 3. Payment to county teach 1848, 301, § 1. 1880, 93. (The phrase enclosed in brackets in the preceding section is rendered void by chapter 456, Acts of 1903.) SECTION 3. The board of education may determine the length of the session of such institute, and may apply not more than three hundred and fifty dollars from the amount authorized by the provisions of the preceding section, to meet the expenses thereof. SECTION 4. (As amended by chapter 383, Acts of 1904, ers' associations. and chapter 260, Acts of 1905.) If a county association of G. S. 35, $$ 4, 5. teachers and others holds an annual meeting of not less 1864, 58, § 1, 2. than one day for the express purpose of promoting the interests of public schools, it shall, upon filing with the board of education a certificate, under oath, of its president and secretary that a meeting has been so held, receive fifty dollars from the commonwealth. P. S. 42, § 4. to Massachusetts Teachers' Section 5 is repealed by section 2, chapter 260, Acts of 1905. SECTION 6. Subject to the approval of the board of education, three hundred dollars shall annually be allowed and paid [from the half of the income of the Massachusetts school fund not apportioned for distribution to towns] to the president or treasurer of the Massachusetts Teachers' Association, to be applied to the purposes of said association. (The phrase enclosed in brackets in the preceding section is rendered void by chapter 456, Acts of 1903.) 1 Commissioner of Education. See footnote, page 4 of this pamphlet. |